Christopher Verga

Saving Fire Island from Robert Moses (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Small coastal communities stand up to the giant of mid-20th century urban development in this chronicle of a true David and Goliath drama. With its unspoiled, tranquil shorelines, Fire Island has been an oasis for vacationers for well over a century. But from the late 1930s into the early 1960s, it was an obsession for Robert Moses, the political power broker and "master builder" who reshaped much of New York. His urban development projects helped create Long Island's suburbs, and he dreamed of turning Fire Island into an extension of Ocean Parkway. Standing up to those ambitions were the seventeen individualistic communities of Fire Island, unified in their love for their sun-washed sandy beaches. To maintain a traditional way of life with limited access to motor vehicles, the community began the fight for federal protection through the creation of the Fire Island National Seashore.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439666432
• Artikelnr.: 55953178

Autorenporträt

Christopher Verga is an instructor of "Long Island History: Foundations of American History" at Suffolk Community College and contributor to the online local news sites Greater Babylon, Greater Bay Shore and Greater Patchogue. His published works include Images of America: Civil Rights Movement on Long Island and Images of America: Bay Shore. Christopher has his educational doctorate from St John's University. His dissertation work was on Long Island Native Americans and the impact of tribal recognition within their cultural identity.